Bio: D.L. Narrol (Dianne) was born in Toronto, Canada. She grew up reading such classics as Joseph Conrad?s Heart of Darkness and Shogun by James Clavell. As an adult, she admired and loved The Wars by Timothy Finley, a renowned Canadian author who put a face to those who fought in World War One. More up to date, she has enjoyed Diana Gabaldon?s Outlander series. She has a B.A. and M.A. in Geography, and her writing displays this with vivid descriptions of cityscapes, terrain, and the cultural essence of people. She currently works as a secondary Geography teacher in an inner city Toronto school. Most of her clientele are from India. She spent four summers in Ireland, hiking the Wicklow Mountains south of Dublin. She researched the life of Irish fishermen of a hundred years ago when there was actually fish in the waters. She learned from the Irish that they are proud of their Great Irish Elk -- Megaloceros giganteus. It came to its demise from being sexually selected against where its antlers became a hindrance to its survival. When communism fell in the former Soviet Union, she spent some time teaching physicists English as a Second Language. Her experiences in Russia taught her a great deal about the life of a scholar under much political change. Her short story, Kate?s Choice about the Gangs of Ottawa in the mid nineteenth century will be released in the fall of 2009 with Giant Beaver Publications. Visit her website: www.dlnarrol.com, which displays an array of her artwork for Prehistoric Journey: The First Expeditions.